pine family

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noun

1. the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genusCedrus ), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.

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pine family

But if the more subtle aroma found in the Georgia woods is more to your liking, choose something from the pine family.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a narrow slip of land on which the principal members of this pine family grow.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

The Pine Family.—The pine family includes the various species of pine, tamarack, spruce, hemlock, fir, juniper, larch, cypress, and cedar.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The gingko belongs to the yew family, which is akin to the pine family.

From Studies of Trees by Levison, Jacob Joshua